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(IX) Henry, son of Nathaniel and Anna Margaret ( Holwell) Deering. was born Sep- tember 29. 1842, at Portland. He was pri- vately educated at home. On reaching his ma- jority he entered the service of his country as a paymaster's clerk in the navy. After the close of the war he studied law and was ad- mitted to the Cumberland bar in June, 1870, and has since practiced his profession in his native city. Much of his time has been given to the care of the family estate, but hardly less has been devoted to the interests of several benevolent and literary institutions of which he has served as trustee or officer. He is a
prominent member of the First Parish Uni- tarian Church and a trustee of several chari- table societies allied with it. He is a life trustee of the Portland Public Library, and has served on important committees of the Maine Ilistorical Society. He is also a mem- ber of the Maine Genealogical Society, of the Society of the Cincinnati, of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Society of Colonial Wars. Able from the first to gratify his own scholarly and historical tastes, he has quietly and unobtrusively labored to place fa- cilities for similar gratification within the reach of his fellow citizens. His literary at- tainments have been recognized by the degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College.
GRIFFIN Humphrey Griffin, immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Griffin family, was born about 1605, and died about 1661-62. His estate was inventoried March 25, 1662. He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was refused as an inhabitant in 1639, the town "being Full," but purchased land January 14, 1641, of Dan- iel Denison near the mill; also land at Labor- in-Vain and a lot on Heart-Break Hill. His wife Joan died July 17, 1657. He married, second, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Rob- ert Andrews, the immigrant. She married. second, February 10, 1662-63. as his second wife, Hugh Sherratt, of Haverhill. Griffin re- moved to Rowley, Massachusetts. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Nathaniel, prob- ably married, August 26, 1671, Elizabeth Ring. 3. Samuel. 4. Lydia. 5. Elizabeth, married, March 3, 1660, Edward Deare.
(II) John, son of Humphrey Griffin, was born about 1640-41. He married, September 17, 1663, at Haverhill, Lydia Shatswell or Satchwell. He resided at Haverhill and Brad- ford, and was selectman of Bradford about 1680. Children : I. Lydia, born June 21, 1664, at Haverhill. 2. Theophilus, February 2, 1665-66, mentioned below. The following were born at Bradford: 3. John, June 13, 1671. 4. Hannah, June 13, 1671 (twin). 5. Ebenezer, October 26, 1673. 6. Susanna, Sep- tember 1, 1675. 7. Samuel, May 27, 1678. 8. Nathaniel, 1680. 9. Abigail. 1684.
(III) Theophilus, son of John Griffin, born at Haverhill, February 2, 1665-66, died there March 17, 1688-89. Among their children was Theophilus, mentioned below. 2. Isaac.
(IV) Theophilus (2), son of Theophilus (1) Griffin, born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, October, 1689, married, December 18, 1710, at Amesbury, Hannah Fowler, of Amesbury.
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He removed to the adjacent town of Kings- ton, New Hampshire, where he was living in 1722, when he sold his property in Amesbury. He was a member of the church in Kingston in 1725. In 1727 he and Isaac Griffin, his brother, were residents of Kingston, and in 1738 both of them signed a petition for a new parish in the east part of the town. He served in Captain William Moulton's company of scouts in the war of 1745. He and his wife went to Deerfield to live with their son and died there; buried at Nottingham. Children : I. Theophilus Jr., born June 17, 1711, removed to Deerfield, New Hampshire, with his brother Eliphalet and had the eastern half of the es- tate they bought together. 2. Eliphalet, men- tioned below.
(V) Eliphalet, son of Theophilus (2) Grif- fin, was born in East Kingston, about 1720. He and his brother Theophilus, April 11, 1749, bought a large farm in Deerfield, New Hamp- shire, for seven hundred and fifty pounds, old tenor, of Matthew Dely. He had the western half. The land is now, or was recently, owned by his descendants in Deerfield. He married a Miss Eastman. He died in 1792 at Deer- field. Children : 1. Eliphalet, born 1751, men- tioned below. 2. Thomas, married Sarah Morse ; had the homestead which he conveyed to his son Timothy by deed, and at last ac- counts was still in the family.
(VI) Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (I) Griffin, was born at Deerfield, New Hamp- shire, in 1751. He was a soldier in the revo- lution from Deerfield in Captain James Nor- ris's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's regi- ment. His age was given in the war records as twenty-four under date of June, 1775. Theophilus Griffin, probably son of Theophi- lus, his uncle, was a soldier in the revolution from Bedford. About the time of the close of the war, perhaps as early as 1776, Eliphalet settled in Alfred, Maine. His farm was lo- cated near Shaker pond and was interesting as the site of former Indian habitation. Many trinkets, arrow heads and utensils have been found there and there were traces of the wig- wams on the place since Griffin owned it. He was a blacksmith by trade; was also a farmer and one of the first in the town. He died about 1798. He was accidentally drowned in Shaker pond. Children: I. John, born May 16. 1776, mentioned below. 2. Thomas. 3. Charles, who was a tavern keeper and at one time had a large brick hotel there, the best in the town, subsequently destroyed by fire. 4. James, the hero of an Indian adventure in
which he escaped capture by skating away from his enemy. 5. Sumner.
(VII) John, son of Eliphalet (2) Griffin, was born May 16, 1776, at Alfred, or came there when very young, and died at Alfred, July 8, 1837, aged sixty-one years. He mar- ried there, March 25, 1799, Mary Weston, born May 9, 1775, died July 23, 1854. He was, like his father, a blacksmith and farmer at Alfred. Children, born at Alfred: I. Le- tha, died unmarried at the age of fifty-four. 2. Nancy, born in 1801, married Daniel Wig- gin. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. Charles, born February 4, 1805, died March 6, 1879. 5. Ivory, died December 10, 1878. 6. Mary W., born January 1, 1810, died March 4, 1858; married Roberts. 7. Sarah, born in 1817, married Charles Blake ; lived and died at Concord, New Hampshire.
(VIII) James, son of John Griffin, born in Alfred, February 27, 1803, died there July 22, 1876. He married Louise Conant, born July 3, 1805, daughter of Daniel and Ruth Conant. His wife died April 22, 1850. James Griffin resided on the old homestead and, like his fa- ther and grandfather, was blacksmith as well as farmer, a prosperous, substantial citizen, highly respected by his townsmen. In politics a Democrat. Of their seven children only two, Maria L. and Mary, grew to maturity. These two sisters inherited the homestead, a portion of which is the original farm of the first set- tler, their great-grandfather, Eliphalet Griffin. Children : I. Daniel, born November 14, 1828, died in 1832. 2. Abbie. born 1832, died in infancy. 3. Maria L., born May 16, 1835. 4. John, born April 29, 1838, died in infancy. 5. John, died in infancy. 6. John, died in in- fancy. 7. Mary A., born November 14, 1844, resides on the homestead with sister Maria L.
PINKHAM The ancient spelling of the name of this strong old fam- ily in England is Pyncombe, and is said to be derived from Pyn, which sig- nifies a pine. and Combe, a hollow or ridge, easily translated into Pine Ridge or Hollow, or a place where sturdy trees grow, and so emblematical of the noble development of a family that withstood bravely life's shocks and storms. Wherever we come upon a bit of Pyncombe history it is intensely interesting, and is starred with heroic and noble deeds. The branch of the family at North Molton, Eng- land, came there with Lord Zouch in the time of Henry VII, and there, and in other towns where members of the family moved, made
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records which glow with patriotism of the very highest type. They married into noble families, and the coat-of-arms which is most frequently seen in America was granted to John Pyncombe of the fifth generation of this Molton line. July 24. 1616. He married Anne Doddridge, a sister of the famous Judge Dod- dridge. It is claimed that the Pinkhams of the New England and nearly all of the west- ern states were descended from this line, and surely their noble deeds and helpful lives are a very strong proof in favor of this theory.
(I) Richard Pinkham, American ancestor, is first mentioned in the records of Dover Neck, New Hampshire, in 1640, and there is no doubt of his having arrived there at a very much earlier date. Earnest students of the family history are certain that Richard Pinkham came from England in the good ship "James" in the famous colony which Cap- tain Richard Wiggans brought over to New England in 1633. He bore the strong charac- teristics of the other members of this stalwart band, "some of whom were of good estates, and of some account for religion." On the 22nd of October, 1640, the people of Dover Neck established, or renewed, a formal grant, the fourth name on that wonderful document being that of Richard Pinkham. Dr. Quint designates this document as "Dover's Magna Charta," and says, "It antedated in practice by one hundred and thirty-six years the principles announced in the Declaration of Independence of 1776. A copy of this paper was found in the public record office of London, England, and every member of the Pinkham family should turn to it with just pride and admira- tion."
The next record of Richard Pinkham in the history of Dover is equally interesting : "27th of the 9th month, 1648. It is this day ordered by a publique Towne Meeting that Richard Pinkham shall beat ve drum on the Lord's Day, to give notice of the time of meet- ing, and to sweepe ye meeting house, for the which he shall be allowed six bushels of Indian corn for his pay this yeare, and to be free from rates." It is clear that this sturdy religious sentry stood long at his post which was so carefully chosen for him by that God-fearing old town. "No sinner could assert that he knew not it was the Lord's Day while those stirring drum beats were heard." The musical ability of this man has been seen in many of his descendants, and his faithfulness marks thousands of Pinkham homes. One of the most eminent historians of Dover has well said, "Richard Pinkham appears to have been
a man of good character, and had his share of the public offices. The spot where he early dwelt is the same as that on which stood the Pinkham garrison which no wily band of In- dians was ever able to enter or destroy, and which Richard afterward made into his habita- tion. This old farm is still owned by one bearing the Pinkham name, and is often visit- ed by many admiring friends and travelers." Ile was one of the most honest, brave and studious men that sought the shores of New England. The full maiden name of the wife of Richard Pinkham is not known, as she is only spoken of as "Julia" in the few old docu- ments which make mention of her, but all agree that she was a woman of noblest Chris- tian character. The following are the names of their children as gathered from old records : 1. Richard, who was a carpenter residing in Dover ; married Elizabeth Leighton, and had a long line of noble descendants, one strong branch of which lived in Nantucket, Massa- chusetts. 2. John, who also resided on Dover Neck. 3. Thomas, who was taxed at Dover Neck in March, 1647, and who probably died soon after this date.
(II) John, son of Ancestor Richard Pink- ham, was first taxed on Dover Neck in 1665, and lived a long and very useful life on the old Pinkham homestead which his father had conveyed to him as his favorite son on condi- tion that he take good care of him in his old age, which work was done in the most loving and patient manner. His will is still preserved and shows him a noble father and Christian citizen. He married the heroic Rose Otis, who was taken to Canada as a captive when the Otis garrison at Dover Neck was over- whelmed by the Indians and was ransomed after adventures of the most thrilling charac- ter. She was the daughter of Richard and Rose ( Stoughton) Otis, and thus a descendant of two of the strongest of old English families. Children: 1. Richard. 2. Thomas, married Mercy Allen. 3. Amos, who, like many of the Pinkhams in the long generations, became a very devoted member of the Friends' church, and married Mrs. Elizabeth Chesley. 4. Rose, married (first) James Tuttle and (second) Thomas Canne (Kenny). 5. Solomon, who was a famous blacksmith and landowner at Madbury, New Hampshire. 6. Otis, who is said to have been born about 1700 and to have died about 1763, inheriting and occupying the old Pinkham homestead, where he and his wife, Abigail ( Tebbets) Pinkham, and his large family lived noble and helpful lives. 7. James, married Elizabeth Smith, and became
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the founder of one of the very noblest lines of the Pinkham family. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Sarah.
(III) Thomas, son of John and Rose (Otis) Pinkham, was a man of deep piety and of great force of character, marrying on Decem- ber 2, 1700, Mercy Allen, of one of the strong old New Hampshire families, and they and many of their line were sturdy members of the Friends' church in many states. Children : I. Sarah. 2. Joseph. 3. Mary. 4. Richard. 5. Ebenezer, born at Dover Neck, New Hamp- shire, November 14, 1712, and early removed to Harpswell, Maine, where he died January 6, 1762, a man of the noblest character. 6. Benjamin, who removed to Boothbay, Maine, when quite a young man. 7. Martha, married Joseph Giles, and removed to Boothbay, Maine. All these children had families of a most worthy character, and are widely scattered over America.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Thomas and Mercy (Allen) Pinkham, was born at Dover Point, New Hampshire, 1717, died at Boothbay, Maine, March 2, 1792. Mr. B. F. Greene, the excellent historian of Boothbay, and other Maine towns, says, "Benjamin Pinkham and his wife Judith came to Townsend, Maine, in 1759, and settled where the late Eben Clisby lived at East Boothbay. Benjamin Pinkhamn was a man of sturdy religious character, mod- est, and very faithful in all of his many labors for humanity. His children and descendants were very helpful in all their many lines of good work in Boothbay, and in every other place where they made their homes. They were sturdy patriots ; strong helpers in the churches which were organized at early dates ; owners of goodly acres; sea captains whose bravery and foresight were known in many home and foreign ports ; business men of care and thrift; men and women whose faithful lives were a constant inspiration to good deeds in all who knew them. The noble traits of Benjamin Pinkham of Boothbay and of his children still shine with undimmed luster among the descendants in the old home town of Boothbay and wherever the tides of time have widely scattered them." Judith, the wife of Benjamin Pinkham, died at Boothbay. Oc- tober 23, 1797, aged seventy-six years. Chil- dren: 1. Ichabod, born 1741, died 1800, being a captain in the revolutionary war, and one of the foremost citizens in Boothbay. 2. Solo- mon. 3. Benjamin, married Ella Cartland and Rhoda Hutchings. 4. Nathaniel, a very prom- inent man, married Martha Cartland. 5. Rhoda, married Benjamin Billings. 6. Sarah,
married William Lewis. 7. Calvin, a very faithful worker in the Baptist church of Boothbay ; married Elizabeth Barter.
(V) Solomon, son of Benjamin and Judith Pinkham, a very helpful resident at North Boothbay, married Mary Perry. Children : I. Captain Joseph, born at Boothbay, November 26, 1767, died in Washington, Maine, in ad- vanced years, having been one of the most successful captains on the Maine coast ; mar- ried Widow Alice Cunningham. 2. Calvin, al- ways resided in Boothbay. 3. Solomon, died at Starks, Maine. 4. Sarah, married Joseph Barter Jr. 5. Hannah, married David Day. 6. Captain David, who was a very successful shipmaster ; married Sarah Bryer. 7. Mar- garet, married Timothy Dunton. 8. Judith, married John Webber. 9. Mary. 10. Abigail, married James Moore.
(VI) Calvin, son of Solomon and Mary ( Perry) Pinkham, was born in Boothbay, Maine, February 10, 1769, and always resided in the western part of Boothbay. He married, in 1793, Joicy Kenney, born in Boothbay, 1770, died November 2, 1863, daughter of Thomas and Jemima ( Foster) Kenney, her fa- ther being a very faithful soldier in the revo- Intionary war. Children: 1. Thomas, always resided in Boothbay ; married Emma Abbott. 2. Fanny, married John Lewis. 3. Benjamin, lived on Barter's Island at Boothbay ; married Abigail Lewis. 4. Mina, married Giles Lewis. 5. Frederic, married Phobe Lewis. 6. Luther, married Ann Dawes. 7. Jonathan, a famous pilot of the Maine coast. 8. Esther, married Charles Day. 9. Daniel.
(VII) Daniel, son of Calvin and Joicy (Kenney) Pinkham, was born in Boothbay, June 12, 1817, died May 16, 1896. He was a man of sterling qualities, who always resided at Boothbay, following the sea for some time, and being one of the selectmen of the town. He married, December 9, 1840, Lucretia Rob- erts, born in Westport, Maine, March 31, 1822, died November 21, 1896, the daughter of John and Abigail (Dunton) Roberts, from which lines she inherited a noble and helpful character. She was a descendant of Thomas Robbins, who came from England to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1680 ; and from John Poole, of Taunton, England, who came to Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1690. Children: I. Hattie Eliza, born September 12, 1841, died in Booth- bay, June 1, 1878; married, September 3, 1860, George Washington Reed; no children. 2. Stephen Hodgdon. 3. Abbie Ellen, born Au- gust 12, 1847, married, in Boothbay, March 2, 1867, James Wesley Reed, and has a large and
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very interesting family. 4. Fernando Lewis, born August 14, 1853, resides at Trevett, Maine: married, January 18, 1874, Josephine Decker : children : Howard, Stephen H., Al- den and Merrill. 5. Clara Evaline, born Sep- tember 19, 1860, has always resided in Booth- bay, where her helpful life is highly prized ; married, January 11, 1880, Edson Cleveland Giles, born in Boothbay, January 3, 1858, and is a very successful farmer and proprietor of a grocery store; their children are very stu- dious and enterprising. 6. Ralph Elmer, born July 24, 1865, died at Baltimore, Maryland, where he was a fire engineer on a steamer ; married, December 9, 1885, Josephine McFar- land, of Bristol, Maine. Children : Roy, Flos- sie and Clarence.
(VIII) Stephen Hodgdon, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Roberts) Pinkham, was born in Boothbay. December II, 1841, died Decem- ber 23. 1870, being one of the highly respected citizens of the town. His life was full of the quiet and kindly deeds which had marked his long line of ancestry. He enlisted in the Nine- teenth Maine Volunteers. He married, Jan- uary 10, 1869, Elizabeth A. Campbell. Their only child was Frank Leslie Pinkham.
(IX) Frank Leslie, son of Stephen Hodg- don and Elizabeth A. (Campbell) Pinkham, was born at Boothbay, April 2, 1870; he now resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, his office being in the Frick building there. The first seventeen years of his life were spent near Georgetown, Prince Edward's Island, on the farm of his grandfather, Roderick Campbell. He then entered the employ of the National Tube Works Company at McKeesport, Penn- sylvania, with which company, its subdivisions and successors, he has been permanently con- nected for over twenty years, giving the most faithful and competent service and holding the following positions : Chief of cost depart- ment, Mckeesport; chief clerk of United States Seamless Tube Works, Christy Park, Pennsylvania ; chief accountant of National Tube Company, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; chief clerk of the Western Tube Company, Kewa- nee, Illinois. In August, 1908, he was ap- pointed assistant to the third vice-president of the National Tube Company at Pittsburg. The Kewanee Daily Star-Courier said, "Mr. Pink- ham's work in the east will be in the newly created position for which he is peculiarly well fitted. on account of his long experience with the pipe and tube departments, the seamless department, and the Kewanee department of the company. He is highly esteemed by all
in this city, where he has resided for over four years. Manager J. C. Bannister of the local works declared that no praise could be too high for Mr. Pinkham as a man of ability and agreeable personality. His appointment is a fully merited compliment to him." Mr. Pink- ham is a member of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church of Kewanee, Illinois, a member of its board of stewards, chairman of its finan- cial committee and vice-adviser of the Men's Church Club. He is also a member of the Kewanee Club, the Kewanee Commercial Club and member of the committee of the invest- ments of this club; member of Youghiogheny Lodge, No. 583, A. F. and A. M. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation of Kewanee, director of the same and chairman of its educational committee. Mr. Pinkham married, December 23, 1891, Lillie S. Hitchens, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. Their child, Helen Ruth Pinkham, was born October 27, 1892, and is a very promising scholar in the Kewanee, Illinois, high school. Richard Allen Hitchens, father of Lillie S. Pinkham, was born at St. Blazey Gate, Corn- wall, England, December 17, 1834. died at Mc- Keesport. February 28, 1907. He was for a long time a very successful merchant of Mc- Keesport, and a faithful member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. His wife, Mary A. P. (Sleep) Hitchins, was a native of Cornwall. England, and a woman of great purity of character and deep religious convictions.
HODGDON The old Pine Tree State has no family of which it may justly feel prouder in point of achievements, in military and educational affairs, in good all-round citizenship than the one whose annals we now record. Originally of Massachusetts stock, it developed and flour- ished on Maine soil after being transplanted and is now a leading family in the state.
Nicholas Hodgdon, of Hingham, Massachu- setts, was a far-off ancestor in 1636. and we come to Benjamin before we are certain of our bearings. He was in Farmingdale. Maine, in 1845, and had Benjamin, Alfred and Dan- iel R.
Daniel Russell, son of Benjamin Hodgdon, was born in Farmingdale, Maine, in 1845. He had the usual common school training, and went to sea for a time. He enlisted in Au- gust, 1864, in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment, Company A. and served until the sunset gun of Appomattox proclaimed the surrender of Lee. At the battle of Hatcher's Run, he was
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wounded in the neck. After the cessation of hostilities he went to California and was en- gaged in mining and farming. On returning to the east he went to Winthrop, Maine, in the employment of the Whitman Agricultural Works as a mechanic. Later he moved to Auburn, Maine, and became a traveling man. He returned to Winthrop, where he lived un- til 1906, when he went to Sabbattus, finally going to Togus. He was a Republican, had been superintendent of schools, belonged to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Win- throp, and the Frost Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He married Olive, daughter of Captain Gould, and she lived but a year. In 1868 he married Mary A. Sawyer, who was born in Richmond, Maine, 1840, and now liv- ing in Augusta. Their children were : Charles, Winfield O., Daniel R., and John, principal of the grammar school in Norway, Maine. This brave soldier who did his part in defending the country died at Togus, Maine, in 1907.
Daniel Russell (2), third son of Daniel R. (I) and Mary A. (Sawyer) Hodgdon, was born in Winthrop, Maine, 1885. He became a pupil in the high school at Winthrop, and obtained a liberal education at Bates College, and at the University of Maine and the Uni- versity of Chicago. He studied for the min- istry and supplied the church at Pittston, Maine, during his collegiate course. He taught the schools in Freeport, Strong, Abbot and Wayne. He came to Corinna in 1907 and is the very efficient principal of the Union Acad- emy in that town. Mr. Hodgdon is a member of the Parian Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and the Stone Ezel Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of the same town. He married, March 9, 1907, Leona M., daughter of William P. Fogg, who was a practicing attorney in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, and the towns of Strong and Waterville, Maine, and is now a resident of Goldfield. Nevada, where he is an attorney- at-law. Leona M. was born in Strong, Maine, and lived there until she was nine years of age; from nine to twelve she resided in Wa- terville, returning then to Strong; she ob- tained her education in the schools of Strong and Waterville, Farmington State Normal school, Teachers' Institute in Portland, Sum- mer school at Wilton, Maine, and the Univer- sity of Maine. She has taught school in Gardiner, Sabattus and Strong, and is now as- sistant principal of the Corinna Union Acad- emy.
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